Projects in categories: Fiction

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A small boy wishes he could be taller. A modern fairytale that follows a young boy's ingenious way of dealing with his 'height', the end result is not the one he imagined.
 
This is a 'coming of age' tale in which a young boy finds himself and blossoms into adulthood.

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A mysterious bridge seems to hide a secret: who crosses it, will experience strange phenomenons like whispering statues and bizarre sounds that seem to attract the wanderer into a trap. Jan, the central character, is at first intimidated by the bridges eerie atmosphere, but decides to dig deeper, finding more than he bargained for.

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When The Bridge of San Luis Rey breaks, five travellers are precipitated into the gulf below. Was it chance or the hand of God that brought these five together at that fatal time in that place? Or were they in some way responsible, themselves, for what happened? These questions are raised with uncynical compassion and answered by Wilder with an indirect affirmation of the power of love.
 
Set in early 18th century Peru at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, this timeless story of delicately interwoven lives traverses worlds as diverse as the theatres, convents, brothels and docks of Lima, Peru to the sea-faring explorations, scientific institutions and courts of Madrid, Spain.
 
'Soon, we too shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten, there is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love,
the only survival, the only meaning.' (Thornton Wilder, 1927)

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Based on the poem by John Oxenham, The Burdened Ass is the story of a shell-shocked and disturbed British soldier who deserts the trenches of World War I only to find the answers to his questions in the actions of a kindred spirit; a simple donkey.

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A circular tale in the desert, off the beaten track, where danger lurks around every corner.

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The Commuter is a Surrealist film in which an office worker shaves his face off every morning in order to blend in with all the other faceless commuters on their way to work. A live-action/digital hybrid, it was repainted on computer frame by frame.
 

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A writer named Billup wakes up one morning to hear the most annoying piece of music ever written, being played continuously from an unknown source. He finds that it is in his head, but other people can hear it too.

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Artist George Wylie's personal exploration of the many complications - engineering, political and corporate that accompany the building of a Crystal Ship, high above a bridge crossing the River Kelvin.

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October 1985. Four young Palestinians - Omar, Mamoud, Rambo and Molqi - are lined up against a wall in an Italian police station. Marilyn Klinghoffer, an American woman, walks into the room and faces the men. She spits into the face of one of them, who glares back at her defiantly.
 
The film is a screen adaptation of John Adams' opera, based around the hijacking in 1985 of a cruise liner by Palestinian gunmen. The narrative is interspersed with flashbacks providing historical background and perspective to the event.

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Bertolucci returns to Paris for the first time since Last Tango In Paris. In this intimate tale of three cinema-obsessed youngsters and their intensely sexually-charged dynamic, Bertolucci pays tribute to the students of 1968 as well as the great Hollywood movies of the 30's and 40's and the directors of the nouvelle vague.
 
Paris, 1968 - students are out on the streets, and revolution is in the air. Teenage siblings Theo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green) befriend Matthew (Michael Pitt), an American student living in Paris. All three of them are fanatical cinephiles, and they spend their days and nights passionately watching movies at the Cinematheque. With their parents away, Isabelle and her brother invite Matthew to move in with them, and the three youngsters soon find themselves unable to leave the apartment - at first playing movie trivia games, but soon participating in a complex psychological and sexual dynamic. Meanwhile, on the city streets, the student demonstrations reach boiling point...

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The Duke tells the story of a young boy in 1950s Liverpool who believes his grandad is John Wayne. Saddle up and hold tight as The Duke rides again!

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A stone age couple are going through a rocky patch. His offer of lunch isn't going to be enough to salvage things. She packs her bags for the 'Black Death' experience as they are revealed to be actors working in a living history exhibit.
 
He hits rock bottom.
 
Three months later, they bump into each other - A second chance? For a moment we're reminded how they used to be with each other, but unfortunately it transpires he still hasn't 'evolved' sufficiently.